This week a crisis was narrowly avoided at the Margolin Hebrew Academy in Memphis, Tennessee when an individual with a handgun attempted to enter the school and fired at the building. Thankfully, the protocols kept the offender out of the building and security cameras …
Amidst the troubling images of protest, disunity and turmoil coming from Israel this week as the Knesset voted in the first Judicial reform legislation, there was a brief, but quite literally touching, moment captured at Jerusalem's Yitzhak Navon Train Station. The clip qui…
Reflection from Pearl Kluger, who was awarded a grant from the UJCVP Endowment to participate in a gap year experience in Israel.
Having finally returned home after completing my incredible gap year in Israel through Young Judaea Year Course, I am filled with a whirlwind of emotions. Th…
At the Jewish Cemetery of the Virginia Peninsula, the past, present and future are all intertwined.
“We have to honor our responsibility to make a proper place for the burial of Jewish people, and their spouses, and their children,” said Buddy David, president of the foundation that ove…
Camp Chaverim is in full swing at the UJC with our largest summer to date. The smiling faces and sounds of laughter have been a joy to experience and we are so thankful for all the hard work Naioki and her team have put into crafting an incredible summer experience for our youth.
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